Chapter 70: Shadow Monster

"Bing Chen Lu is also very delicious. Can you sell me a jar?" Su Linyuan asked.

"My family still has quite a bit of Bing Chen Lu. You can have your family go to my house to get it; just find my eldest brother, Su Jian." Su Jin said.

"That's good. I'll have my family go get a jar later." Su Linyuan was satisfied.

Good things must be gathered in greater quantities for home use.

Otherwise, how could he ever catch up to monsters like Su Wuji and the others?

A few days passed quietly.

It was the day before the rest day.

After everyone had lunch at noon, they returned to the Third Classroom.

Su Wuji stood happily on the podium: "I have good news for everyone. I have broken through to the first layer of Body Tempering. Haha, are you surprised? Is it unexpected?"

Hearing his laughter, which was full of humblebragging, everyone was stunned.

"You actually broke through to the first layer of Body Tempering in just five days." Yang Guan was completely broken.

He thought to himself, how is anyone supposed to catch up?

Su Jin also calculated silently in her heart; she herself had taken over half a month to go from nothing to breaking through to the first layer of Body Tempering. Ahem, she had also relied on Earth-Core Blueberry Dew when breaking through.

But look at Su Wuji; truly, his talent is extraordinary.

This fellow's talent must not be focused solely on Qi Refining cultivation.

"I still need two days to break through; you've gone ahead of me again." Su Cheng said regretfully.

Su Yunhu's face skin was trembling.

One broke through to the first layer of Body Tempering in five days, the other in seven. You non-humans!!!

Su Linyuan's face skin was also twitching.

Although he had long known his cultivation talent was inferior to theirs and had long prepared himself mentally to chase after this group for a long time in the future,

when he heard Su Wuji happily and proudly say he had broken through to the first layer of Body Tempering, his heart and liver still couldn't help but tremble.

So unwilling.

You monsters; in front of you, I appear so helpless.

"Brother Wuji, keep going. Whether our class can fight for a spot in the Beast Blood Meridian Washing Pool this time depends on you." Su Yunhu suddenly shouted loudly.

"I will work hard. You hurry up and work hard too. Do you really plan to lie flat here for a month? Hurry up and work hard to break through to the second layer of Qi Refining sooner. I heard the students of the Second Classroom have started cultivating frantically; they are all trying desperately to break through to the second layer of Qi Refining before you to slap your face.

If you don't want to lose face badly, you must break through quickly." Su Wuji's poisonous mouth had opened again.

Su Yunhu: "..."

"I will break through to the second layer of Qi Refining in another six or seven days." Su Linyuan suddenly said at this moment.

"Mm-hmm, me too." Yang Guan also said at this moment.

"So, if your breakthrough progress is slower than ours, then you won't be the fourth in the class, but the sixth." Yang Guan said coldly.

Hearing this, Su Yunhu was stunned, his whole body frozen.

"Today it is Yang Guan and me surpassing you; soon there will be others. What will you do then? Squat behind the top ten in the class?" Su Linyuan said. "If you don't go all out now, you will later become the negative example for all other students in the class.

Whenever people mention you, they will say that Su Yunhu who slacks off all day, has no proper form, and knows nothing about diligent cultivation!"

Su Yunhu suddenly let out a loud "Ah!" and then rushed out of the Third Classroom alone.

"You two were a bit too harsh." Su Cheng frowned slightly and said.

"If we don't speak harshly, he won't wake up until later. In the clan school, either you desperately roll upward, or you fall down with a 'plop'.

If he doesn't cultivate with all his might soon, he will quickly have no chance even to make amends.

Who will wait for him in place?

Everyone is rolling desperately, cultivating desperately.

Even I, to squeeze out more time for cultivation, dare only sleep for two double-hours every day; I don't dare sleep even a quarter-hour more." Su Linyuan said coldly.

"Wanting to keep your grades while playing on the side is impossible. He doesn't have that kind of talent."

Su Wuji heard this and said, "No matter how good the talent, without effort, it is all in vain."

"Then Su Cheng, you take away Su Yunhu's array disk and other items. Return them to him when he comes tomorrow." Su Wuji added.

"Okay."

The matter of Su Yunhu running out of the clan school early was soon known to Teacher Liu. She hurried over to find out why Su Yunhu had run out of the clan school early.

After learning the reason, she quickly contacted Su Yunhu's parents.

Letting his father go pick him up.

The next day was a rest day. Before dawn, Su Jin got up.

After gearing herself up, she went to find her eldest brother, Su Jian.

Su Jian hadn't gotten up yet!!

While sleeping in a daze, he heard the rapid knocking sound of "pa-pa-pa".

"Big brother, it's time. Why haven't you gotten up yet?"

"Big brother, didn't we agree to go out of the city today?"

"Big brother, are you up yet?"

Su Jian's brain was buzzing from the door-knocking sound.

He thought: I will never have a third child again.

Raising children is truly too exhausting for a person.

"Coming, coming, coming right now."

Su Jian climbed out of the quilt with a bitter face, and then left with a face full of grievance amidst his wife's teasing gaze.

Finally, the two siblings ate a simple breakfast, then shouldered their tool bags and left home.

They were to wait for the flying car at the west gate of the family's residential area.

Su Jin had not expected that the person they ended up waiting for was Su Yunhu and his father. Su Yunhu, looking guilty, glanced at her once, then pulled his old man and ducked behind the crowd.

Soon Su Jian's two teammates arrived. Then he found the flying car his group had booked together with his team members.

He brought Su Jin onto the flying car.

His two teammates sat down facing them.

A long narrow table was set in the middle, fixed to the car.

"Didn't expect you'd come out of retirement again, Su Jian? We thought you weren't doing wood-essence extraction work anymore." One of the youths, a stocky dark-complexioned fellow, started teasing Su Jian the moment he got on the car.

"Originally I wasn't planning to do it again. But my little sister's started learning wood-essence extraction. To learn this spell, you can't do it without trees to practice on.

But if you want to find trees to practice on, going solo means the forest farms won't let us in.

So I had to rejoin a team. I thought it over, and joining your little squad is still the safest bet.

The two of you, I still trust.

As for other people, I really wouldn't dare team up with them." Su Jian said with a grin.

"You're really something. The forest farms haven't been peaceful lately. In the past two months, several forest farms have had incidents. Forest rangers and teams entering the farms to extract wood essence have either been wiped out in one swoop, completely annihilated.

Or else a few survivors escaped, still talking about running into some black-shadow monster."